Travellers' Tales : Narratives of Home and Displacement Paperback / softback
Edited by Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Melinda Mash, Tim Putnam, George Robertson, Lisa Tickner
Part of the FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis series
Paperback / softback
Description
Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving.
The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land.
The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415070164
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415070164
